BlackBerry Desktop Software v7.0 B44 Officially Released for PCs

RIM released BlackBerry Desktop Software v7.0 in the Beta Zone back in November of last year. Vodafone then sort of released it on their website in January but RIM was nice and hush about it. Now RIM has officially made Desktop Manager v7.0 official on their website and available to all for download. This version is 7.0 B44 and was just released today along with a bunch of knowledge base articles about it that you can find below. I have not found the change log for this release but it is supposed to improve sync to desktop apps.

I’m attempting to download 7.0 B44. Unfortunately, the Blackberry site is returning the following message in response to any request to download desktop manager for the PC: “file not found.”

Kudos to Blackberry for releasing knew software, but at this point, does anyone have any suggestions on how to download a version of Desktop Manager? I have a Playbook that is giving me the 4 flashing red LEDs of death and the only hints online involve upgrading the OS via desktop manager.

Downloaded and installed just fine. Unfortunately, have been syncing for an hour and a half now. It still says that it is Preparing the Sync Preview. Have never experienced anything this slow. It does NOT look promising.

Forgot to mention, I tried to backup my PlayBook before syncing my 9900. This version also refuses to backup my PlayBook which has never been backed up using the desktop software. It has failed since the day that I got it.

In France, the update to DM 7.0.0.43 came out yesterday.
Of course, I clicked “update” as it promised great new features…
a) It needed a download of Microsoft files concerning C++ SP 2008. OK, so half the userbase will have gotten lost at this stage…
b) Then it froze at the stage “Preparing preview for synchronisation results” or in French “Préparation de la prévisualisation des résultats de syncronisation”…I gave it 3 shots, each for more than one hour. This is where the other half of the user base gives up.

Outcome:
Hours and hours of time wasted
No Sync Outlook to BB
No updated data on Bridge on Playbook
WTF is all I can say. This problem has been around for months.

No wonder people are jumping ship to Apple. I am placing all my hopes on the new german CEO to turn this company around…..

Honestly guys, why release software that OBVIOUSLY has bugs in it. I am having the same problem as the others with the sync preview just hanging forever! I have been a loyal BB user for the past 15 years but honestly, I am seriously considering moving to Apple. The Beta testing is there for a reason, but when you release a new product, make sure that its damn well tested thoroughly as this is just rubbish!!! Now I need to bring back version 6 which was working just fine. Complete waste of my time – thanks BB!

Thanks, I downloaded the V6 off of the softpedia site and deinstalled V7 and now all works well again. Thanks for the link on the softpedia. It was a life saver for me. I’m sure RIM will straighten this out quickly. Why they were so quick to remove V6 off their site and not reposting it there even knowing how much trouble we’re all having with V7 is unknown to me.

Wow those are some serious problems you guys are having. I have not run into any issues for awhile though I have heard of others having some. I know they have all hands on deck for PlayBook 2.0 early next week which is probably why they needed to get this out the door. I will try to run down what the issue is. Have you tried reporting it in their Beta Zone?

Desktop Manager is an interesting product because it is still developed by the old handheld Java team though it works with QNX. My guess is it will probably change drastically once the QNX team catches their breath and takes it over.

problem is theres some very simple escape routes that just do not work so when the program freezes at the stage “Preparing preview for synchronization results” the cancel button does nothing and the only way to stop it running is to use windows task manger kill task , and even then it has updated nothing >>>>

this renders the whole purpose of desktop manager useless for me and its supposedly a release version not a beta ??

Hi everybody, i have a serius and extrange problem whit the Desktop manager, i just have updated to the v7.0.0 B60 last version never work either.

My problem is that the program begins pops the logo and after that them pops the window where you have to see the options of the program and it just dont show nothind i tried reinstalling / uninstalling everythind and nothind works, i cant see nothind

Hi guys, trying to download the latest softwear to the fone. This is supposed to take 2 hours…. its now been 2 days and it keeps crashing on 9% i go away tomoz and really need to get my fone back working. I have taken out the battery but as soon as i turn the phone back on it starts the backing up data again… but stops at 9% Some please help. x